Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-05-12
rERE AND T1rERB,

The Bureat way tor sweet girl graduates |
to get into print Ia TO wear calico dresses
on commencement day. LoloeU Citfsesa.
Prince Bismarck is grand old man,
but he will persist in wearing cap that |
makes him look like sleeping car CON
ductor. - ETcaaAse.
Henry George, it is said, gets $75 o |
night for lecturing. Who wouldn't weep |
over the miseries of the down rodden
nottingham at $75 per weep a--Oaepetaad |
PiaindeGlsr.
The statement that the Nihilists are |
going to abandon the dagger and the
bomb gives rise to the suspicion that they
have hired Arthur Richmond to write
letters to the ozar.--P ittsbtyg DesPatca-
There once was a season called spring,
II has gone with time on the wing,
And now, with a hop, q skip and Jump,
From winter to summer we land In lump.
Vanished. the beautiful sprihgl
Boston Globe.
The crown prince Of Italy has graciously
condescended to contract the meaales
The Roman populace rejoice greatly over
this additional proof of the democratic
sentiments of the reigning house.-Lite
Some one once said that care killed a
cat. What we want to know is the exact
locality where a goodly quantity of the
quality Of care above referred to can be
procured at any price. Yonker's States
man.
He lat dinner May 1 assist you to
to the cheese, Miss Vassar? Miss Yassar
Gust graduated Thanks, mol l am
very comfortable where am (! But you
may assist the cheese to mo, if you viii
Puck.
Joseph Chamberlain says that he knows
the charges OF Major Saunderson against
the Irish nationalists to DO true. Joe
must'be getting jealous Of Saunderson. BE
wishes ii understood that he ia something
of liar himself. Buffalo Netos.
Johnny, you may give me the name
Of some wild flower" said the teacher in
botany. Johnny thought while and
then said: "Well, reckon Injun meal
comes about as near being wild -four as
anything know p Washington Critic.
The New York Times in recent Issue
had the head lines: MRS. Duffy's
poverty. Nothing of any value except
her husbands worthless cheques" A
worthless cheque Of yalua is a discovery
that ought to rank with the Georgejones
Riyer.-Pack.
Two minutes of racing to twenty min
utes of pool-selling Ia the way business
of the turf is divided up now. There is
no more long distance or heats racing. A
simple dash is enough to gamble on and
Improve the breed of horses. -Neso
Orleans Picdyuae.
II tell you, it's all nonsense" said the
editor, after selling six sacks of declined
manuscripts 10 the junk dealer, and
sorting over $ll worth of unused postage
stamps tits all nonsense to contend
that there are no profits in literature. y
Life.
A pamphlet has been issued called
captain Glazier and His Lake" Tint
Lake Itasca has been right where it is now
for several thousand years. II Mr.. GlAzier
owns it, he should be made to take il
away. Government wants the land it is
on.-Neto Orleans PicayUHe.
CLARA Can it be, Dolly, that you are
to marry Mr.. Smith, after saying to me
SO repeatedly that you could not endure
him? Dolly-The truth is, Clara, dear,
that until heard that his aunt had died,
leaving him fortune, was deceived in
my own feelings toward him.-Harper',
Bdzar.
Sand now, dear, is there anything that
would make you feel better % "Yes
there is" 'What darling?" THAT pear
set at Stiffness" "But, my precious
you can't wear them while you are sicl
abed." "No, but will know that no
body who isn't sick abed can."--1I0,o1
Topics.
, ""Those two Boston girls who sat il
front of us at the matinee weren't hal
/ bad, Ell, old man? ?" "Quite taw, I'm
, sure. But how do you know they'r,
) from Boston," Didn't you notice tina
, they did all their talking IN French7'
cad And slch French, too
q E0etiy, -YNea Fpfacs.
I A pretty widow, dressed in black
a passes cafe. ''Do you know her ?
Eyes she is Madame X. She lost be
i husband six months ago." "By til
Q way" says one, "did you ever remaI
i how very charming a young widow is 7
}. Guiboliard, aside, and with great pr
y fundity-"His isn't. p French Paper.
Il Rider Haggard, they say, has plagiatized,
4 Add stolen descriptions and plos,
And made up his novels from other men
70 And ssoien the best OF their thoughts
y But tire voice Of his readers Is heard ever
where
g In loud and rssistless enco-e;
10 WPlsase give us q plagiariz novel aggln,
n Mr.. Haggard, pray steal us some more.
= lid Bits.
d At the opera-A Reigning Belle
" GLOW very odd it must seem to sit dow
te there-among the people," One of d
Men She Knows --'You wouldn't like it
Belief should stay away. What
the world, now, do you suppose tn
come for ?" Man-"Oh, possibly, d
u music, You know."-Puck.
~ FLAMES" said the milkman to his nj
y boy, "d'ye see what I'm adoin of
n, g Yes, sir" replied james You
3 a-pourin' water in the milk" 'No, 1
"a not, James I'm a.pourin' milk in I
\ water. So, il anybody asks you if / =
a water in my milk, you tell EN- i
40 Alters stick TO the truth, James; cheat
adj is bad 'nough, but lyin in wuss. Ill
no pet's Bd&aT.
nd when the hero died, the leader writ
ire produced long solemn and maaterly
dis view of his career. II began: "Gene
Ter Sir 1. Orlando Featherstone, X. @.
10y whose decease is ohronieled in our Isl
are to day." &c. And the madcap compo
nd tor brought il ont in the respectable
ica London daily General Sir l. Orlan
Is Featherstone, X. q. b., whose disease
on chronic in our issue to-day. y" Boa
on Post
on How brilliant Augustus De CHAT
II q il said Miss Aailine LIE Fritters TO
friend, Joselina MeBoltz, MS the elega
gilt edged youth left the room. !"
40 really in like champagne-h has 40 mi
"a. sparkle about him." @ Yes" answe
W. Miss McBoliH, "but there's no pop alb
a. him. He's heen alone with me for
~. ~, hour past, and never said word TO
, ~ point, though was hoping every MON
IL IL he'd go of. Tile 1niericGa.
Mrs. Blobson was mixing some m
!, icine for MIR Blobson, who was 81
,nta when she was astonished to sec her l
the band wink at her in very omphl
the manner. What do you mean by wi
you ing at me in that way, MIR. Blobsoi
' to she demanded. ''F force of hab
me- stammered Mr.. Blobson. .,
.alt mol don't mean that I mean
I. III q have got something in my eye" Nv
Der. haven't" responded Mrs. B. with
Ican perity.-BurlingtOa free Press.
that A circular rubber plate, about foe
!, diameter, covered with narrow points
% third of an inch high, sticking upv
like inverted tacks, was put on the c
,oau ier's counter at the Astor House yes
w. day. Guests were puzzled by the cor
w.; we vance until they had occasion to REQ
li Us change from the cashier, and then I
th,s saw that it WAS very useful thing,
10y deed, as they could pick their sill
M; nickels and cents from the elastic poi